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Example sentences for: corny

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Made with a gee-whiz earnestness and simplicity that's so out of style it's refreshing" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). Others are more wary of the movie's syrupy core: David Denby says the film is "borderline corny, but I was held by it; I was even moved by it" ( The New Yorker ), and David Edelstein in
(Benedict Nightingale, the London Times ). However, some critics dismiss the project as a corny, nostalgia-heavy tourist trap, "an Elizabethan theme park" (Roy Hattersley, the Guardian ). (Click here for the Globe's site.)
The biggest problem: corny dialogue that attempts to replicate 17 th century vernacular.
Sweet and funny without being corny, the film "belongs to a small genre of crowd-pleasers [such as] The Full Monty and Brassed Off " (Jami Bernard, Daily News ). (Visit the official site; Slate 's David Edelstein is not charmed: "I see a future for elderly male actors willing to shed their clothes for laughs, but I don't see myself in the audience."
"Flawless is so awful it just might put an end to Hollywood's hypocritical infatuation with men in drag as symbols of its own supposedly liberated sexual attitudes" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ). Critics call it corny, predictable, and packed with gay stereotypes.